I have long maintained that the ambiguous ethical messages given to students in our schools has help erode societal ethics over time.
Now we have yet more proof that some teachers are incompetent, desperate, lazy, and bad examples to boot.
Under pressure to actually teach children well enough for them to pass standardized tests, teachers all over the US are suspected of (and being caught) altering test scores, coaching students during tests, and even publishing study guides by breaking the rules and viewing and copying the tests before they were given.
Proving that administrators can also be incredibly stupid, one case involved changing the answers on so many questions of so many tests that it was judged impossible for the level of improvement shown to have happened.
When confronted, the guilty parties broke down and confessed.
Can we please start being as upset about bad teachers as we are about bad cops?
Can we eliminate the tenure system (that no longer makes sense, if it ever did)?
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